Hello folks, after taking a little blog holidays I’m back, and I’m proud to announce that… Yes, I bring a brand new theme!

Things you should know about:

• I wanted to make it clean & juicy, thankfully it looks like both of my goals were accomplished
• It’s based on the frame of Wordpress theme made by Chinese buddy. Despite of the fact that this design doesn’t look that good, his code was pretty fine and adjusting it to all of my crotchets was trouble-free and quite comfortable
• Choosing a good logo was the most challenging part of my work. Although I don’t have many problems in web design, every time when I need to develop a logotype I’m starting to realize that all of my GIMP know-how is not enough to make a good one. So I did a little research, checked few variants, and finally decided to use one of icons available in Tux’n'Tosh.
• Color scheme comes from my favorite distribution of Linux, of course. In spite of all of my liking, I haven’t put Ubuntu logo into header section - it would be suggesting that author of that blog writes about Linux basically. As far as I know he doesn’t

Okay, time to response to all of your recent comments & cut through the sea of unread items in Google Reader…

Recently Opera’s market share increased from 0.87% to 0.99%, when I was discussing about it with a group of nerds (I really like Opera Browser and I’m always glad to see their progress ), the nameless mental giant came and stated: “with only 1 percent of share Opera has no importance at all!“.

Dude… I wish you would know the number of all internet users at first!

Below you can see a chart that shows current Browser Market Share (provided by Net Applications). This is nice, but you can say you have seen similar ones coming in news many times before, so that’s nothing special. Ok, but in general all these charts have a little disadvantage - they don’t feed your imagination. So people are starting to think that Opera has only few users, and of course no one uses other browsers like Konqueror, K-Meleon, or any other. Fortunately, we possess some info about global internet usage…

According to these numbers there are already around 1,244,449,601 people connected to the web (yes I know it looks amazingly, cannot see it in stats of my sites ) - let’s calculate how many of them use respective browsers:

• IE (around 969,052,904, one another chance to say “I hate Bill Gates!”)
• Firefox (around 184,800,766, thanks to Google & their affiliates?)
• Safari (around 62,844,705 - say hello to all users of Mac)
• Opera (around 12,320,051)
• Netscape (around 7,964,477)

Now you’ve got to know that Opera’s 1% is THAT much, and why social bookmarking version of Netscape.com was a success.

Alright folks, there was no way for me to publish new stuff there recently BUT finally it looks like I have a little bit more free time now… And of course I’m gonna go back to my postings

Wordpress theme has been modified once again - both header and sidebar were changed, also I removed all sucky adsense units from there. Wordpress installation was upgraded to the newest stable version - it was challenging indeed, I wonder how all the not-tech-savvy users cope with it…

PS Yes, font used for new logo comes from Ubuntu. If you wish you can download it there OR just use apt-get command listed below (only Ubuntu users ):

apt-get install ttf-ubuntu-title

Today’s episode of Czech Chick Knockout Series should be dedicated to readers from the USA. Her name is Daniela Peštová, and as you can see in pictures, this kind of beauty is VERY comparable to comeliness presented by majority of American chicks. Below you can see few best photos I chose, if you’re looking for more there’s her gallery at Sports Illustrated.

Czech model Daniela Peštová

Daniela is forth Czech model featured there, gotta speed it up ’cause Jorge already applied for giving some help with next series. If it was not a flash in the pan, next month there should appear another bunch of posts, this time featuring Portuguese chicks (meninas? ) Read the rest of this entry »

If you’re interested in affiliate stuff, you must be pretty angry on people that cut off your aff code just because they don’t like affiliate links. Some of them are retarded, some of them really believe that they can loose something when they click on your affiliate link, others are just pesky - do not mind it, at least they’re all only humans, and it’s understandable. But if you think you don’t have to be boiled, I’m afraid that you’re TOTALLY wrong. The only one that you need to be angry about is the guy that host your affiliate program. Yes, that means there’s a bunch of monkeys that make use of you every time you put a sucky affiliate link within a page.

You say “wait, but I do make bucks on it!“, but you don’t make any money, in fact. Unless you have your own sheep herd that clicks, you don’t earn any bucks on affiliate marketing - all that you receive for participating in affiliate program is only a piece of sucky handout. Now answer a question - Do you really need to be used by batch of monkeys that make REAL money on it? You bring traffic to their offers, and in most cases you do it for FREE just because people don’t like to click on affiliate links. Don’t you respect your work? Do you really like to feel like a beggar?

Some of you know it well, for those who don’t - whatever stats you use (AWstats, Google Analytics, even poor Wordpress stats), you must notice that there’s always a smart list of Referring Sites available. And yeah, this is that simple to develop and include within all of affiliate programs that you participate in. There’s no need to hide affiliate links with JavaScript, redirects, iframes, or whatever.

There are LOTS of affiliate programs available, sadly at the moment I can see only two exceptions: Amazon (thanks to the way they create URLs your aff codes are difficult to remove) and TNX.net (their system is able to track all users coming from URL of a single page that you can enter in your panel).

BTW it would be really cool to use it for all pages, simply by adding domain names. Don’t you think so?

This chick does have a sociable life. Turn on your speakers and watch the video below Read the rest of this entry »

Two days ago I found that Jeffro has published a post titled “A Big Heart Felt Thanks To YOU“, where he takes an opportunity to share the link love and say “thanks” to all of his readers. He does pretty well with his blog, so by chance I added a short, petty comment. Nothing special, srsly - but the bonus result was very, very funny

There’s a little conversation I got in comments below the post:

My first comment (the ignition spark):

Jeffro you got comment from a Russian chick, you rock!

Speak of the devil - bitching response:

@ Florchakh: If the “Russian chick” refers to me, I would actually prefer something like “editor of the successful multi-author news blog Profy.Com”. Would that be Ok with you?

Second one (the second try):

Jeffro you got a comment from swellheaded Russian chick that actually prefer something like “editor of the successful multi-author news blog Profy.Com”, or somewhat.

Let sleeping dogs lie - bitching once again:

Florchakh, that starts to sound rude actually. I hope you do not mind me leaving the discussion - after mentioning that Jeffro rocks, of course (this is one thing I can agree with you on).

Dear Svetlana Gladkova, there’s a little thing called “modesty“, many people appreciate it a lot, including me. For example, if I would like to be “immodest” in similar way to you, then I could say that you’re a sucky editor of a blog filled full with copycat news (have you ever published any original stories? Afraid not…), and at the moment it looks like I can say that even my poor SPAMS are more SUCCESSFUL than all of your hopeless doings.

Definition of chick taken from the Urban Dictionary:

Actually a non-derogatory slang term for the word girl. This word was probably a spanglish derivative from the spanish word “chica” meaning, of all things, girl.

Of course, there’s one another option, dedicated to this kind of girls that generally don’t prefer being called a chick, fox, pussycat, knockout, eyepopper, stallion, or any other common, inoffensive word. If you wish, this one may well refer to you instead of the previous one:

Bitch - woman that doesn’t give a flying f*ck anymore and that can and will be cruel to men (…) a domineering, spiteful female

PS Regards to readers from Russia, I still do think that you are great people. Shit happens, from time to time

PPS As well as regards to all females that read my writings

PPPS Svetlana, you suck.